My Story
I My name is Thomas Nisbet-Lance. I've noticed that Thomas Lance actually fits better on the spine of a book! I am new to the artist craft of writing. I am actually a licensed private investigator in Oregon. I operate two firms : Mill Creek Investigation Agency and Mill Creek Analytics, located in Salem and Lincoln City.
A long time ago, in a state far away, I returned from school in Kiel, Germany just in time for Hurricane Allen to unleash its fury on the South Texas coast. After preparing our property for the storm, my aunt gave me something to occupy the hours until the storm passed. While riding out Hurricane Allen with a candle providing the only illumination in the room, I read a book which changed my life. It was The Bourne Identity. I realized that I wanted to be a spy, and I also wondered about writing a novel. For the next thirty years, after studying law in France and graduating with a law degree from Willamette University, I continued to wonder about how to utilize the law as a device for spying. I found the perfect intersection. I built an investigative career in which I am paid to find secrets and paid even more to keep secrets. However, the thought of writing clever stories still captured my imagination. If only I could find the right story to launch action from fantasy. One day, in the summer of 2013, I decided to put a pen to paper, the old-fashioned way, and I charted out a book.
I began Dancing with Rembrandt as a novel involving the most fascinating story I had ever heard. Two men dressed as police officers entered a museum in Boston while the city reveled in St. Patrick's Day, and escaped with thirteen specific items of art. After more than twenty-five years, the art is still unrecovered. What would happen if a down-on-her-luck single mom discovered the entire collection? It took nearly a year to write the story, and I am very proud of my result.
The success of Dancing with Rembrandt prompted me to write two political thrillers. The Confession of Alexander Trust involves unquenchable desire for power, prestige, and profit. The story is complicated and long, but the result is an entertaining thriller of methamphetamine-fueled madness and mayhem, interlaced with a criminal trial of an unusual defendant accused of murdering a government official. The apprehension and prosecution of the unusual accused person is determined by a single individual who uses the situation to promote a political campaign.
Finally, The Refuge carries out the conclusion to the traumatic ending of The Confession of Alexander Trust. Against a backdrop of gubernatorial succession involving an elite member of the political establishment who has access to secret funding sources, a young challenger with no governmental experience battles the obstacles the elite candidate deploys. When she is lured to the site of one of the secret funding sources -- an isolated wildlife refuge -- to resolve an unlawful occupation, she faces her most dangerous challenge.
I am proud of all three novels, and I have several more stories in various stages of production. My next novel, Interstitial, is an ambitious story about a man who suffers great loss and faces a challenging dilemma that threatens the privileges his occupation demands. It is still a work in progress that I anticipate will emerge in July 2018. All stories have a moral, and my story is that if you have a dream, pursue it! It may take thirty years, but never give up!
A long time ago, in a state far away, I returned from school in Kiel, Germany just in time for Hurricane Allen to unleash its fury on the South Texas coast. After preparing our property for the storm, my aunt gave me something to occupy the hours until the storm passed. While riding out Hurricane Allen with a candle providing the only illumination in the room, I read a book which changed my life. It was The Bourne Identity. I realized that I wanted to be a spy, and I also wondered about writing a novel. For the next thirty years, after studying law in France and graduating with a law degree from Willamette University, I continued to wonder about how to utilize the law as a device for spying. I found the perfect intersection. I built an investigative career in which I am paid to find secrets and paid even more to keep secrets. However, the thought of writing clever stories still captured my imagination. If only I could find the right story to launch action from fantasy. One day, in the summer of 2013, I decided to put a pen to paper, the old-fashioned way, and I charted out a book.
I began Dancing with Rembrandt as a novel involving the most fascinating story I had ever heard. Two men dressed as police officers entered a museum in Boston while the city reveled in St. Patrick's Day, and escaped with thirteen specific items of art. After more than twenty-five years, the art is still unrecovered. What would happen if a down-on-her-luck single mom discovered the entire collection? It took nearly a year to write the story, and I am very proud of my result.
The success of Dancing with Rembrandt prompted me to write two political thrillers. The Confession of Alexander Trust involves unquenchable desire for power, prestige, and profit. The story is complicated and long, but the result is an entertaining thriller of methamphetamine-fueled madness and mayhem, interlaced with a criminal trial of an unusual defendant accused of murdering a government official. The apprehension and prosecution of the unusual accused person is determined by a single individual who uses the situation to promote a political campaign.
Finally, The Refuge carries out the conclusion to the traumatic ending of The Confession of Alexander Trust. Against a backdrop of gubernatorial succession involving an elite member of the political establishment who has access to secret funding sources, a young challenger with no governmental experience battles the obstacles the elite candidate deploys. When she is lured to the site of one of the secret funding sources -- an isolated wildlife refuge -- to resolve an unlawful occupation, she faces her most dangerous challenge.
I am proud of all three novels, and I have several more stories in various stages of production. My next novel, Interstitial, is an ambitious story about a man who suffers great loss and faces a challenging dilemma that threatens the privileges his occupation demands. It is still a work in progress that I anticipate will emerge in July 2018. All stories have a moral, and my story is that if you have a dream, pursue it! It may take thirty years, but never give up!